# THIS song sound just like THAT song. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106 "2013-10-24T13:16:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/141 "2014-03-23T23:36:38Z")
Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” and"Aura Lea" [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBAu0JO9G4) Ringo Starr’s “It Don’t Come Easy” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlOUc0LTiE) Clapton’s “Let it Rain” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y86kDFaJ2h4/hqdefault.jpg "Eric Clapton "Let It Rain" (1970)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86kDFaJ2h4) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/142 "2014-03-24T00:42:08Z")
> [@Andiethewestie](#): > > Not different enough to duck a lawsuit. > [http://www.hitfix.com/news/marvin-gaye-family-wins-victory-in-blurred-lines-copyright-case](http://www.hitfix.com/news/marvin-gaye-family-wins-victory-in-blurred-lines-copyright-case) I know, and I disagree with that lawsuit. Sony obviously felt it was better to settle than deal with it. If that’s as close as two songs need to be to constitute copyright infringement, it’s a miracle there’s any “original” songs left. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/143 "2014-03-24T00:47:39Z")
Here’s a slightly more obscure one: Carole King’s["It’s Too Late"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8b8Nz31jZw) and Stephen Schwarz’s [“Magic to Do” from _Pippin_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIqBF3MF3Bs) (The backing piano part in the verse of both is fairly similar–same key, same two chords (Am7 to D6), similar rhythm, slightly different fills between the the D6 to Am7, but a similar rhythmic and melodic idea, even down to the syncopated chord repetition after the “we’ve just stopped trying” lyric.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/144 "2014-03-24T13:45:49Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I was going to mention the Buffalo Soldier/Banana Splits similarity. Not only that, but Stanley Clarke’s “School Days” uses the same melodic outline as those two, with a slightly different rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/145 "2014-03-24T15:03:18Z")
Back when [Sublime’s “What I Got”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUEAjS3urfA) was popular, it was noted how much the general feel of the melody line and chord progression resembled “Lady Madonna,” especially the part of the verse that goes"Got to find a reason why my money’s all gone" which is pretty darned close melodically (and even somewhat thematically, lyric-wise) to Lady Madonna’s “Wonder how you manage to make ends meet” or “Did you think that money was heaven sent”? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/146 "2014-03-25T21:34:59Z")
If its not posted already… ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky and The Beatles’ A Day in the Life (starting at time index 2.17) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P-Q9D4dcYng/hqdefault.jpg "The Beatles- A Day in the Life") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/147 "2014-08-30T07:27:40Z")
Tito & Tarantula’s 1996 song “[After Dark](http://youtu.be/cG0qv9s0VNo)” bears a _remarkable_ resemblance to Pere Ubu’s 1978 song “[Over My Head](http://youtu.be/-4vyCsdnCoQ)”. Listen: [ul] [li]same key (C minor)[/li][li]same chords in the same sequence[/li][li]same rhythm[/li][li]same tempo[/li][li]melodic similarity[/li][li]lyric similarity[/li][/ul] Compare: AD: “In her eyes A distant fire light burns bright” OMH: “In the gas her eyes are imagined And what she sees cannot be detected” AD: “In the dawn I wake up to find her gone” OMH: “It’s pretty cute the way she tucks me in at dawn” It would seem inescapable that Tito must have ripped off Ubu. Unless both songs are imitating an earlier model with that guitar rhythm, chords, and spooky mood. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/148 "2014-08-30T09:53:22Z")
I know they aren’t really the same, but the ending themes of Supernatural and the first two seasons of Bones remind me strongly of each other for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/149 "2014-08-30T10:33:28Z")
Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” https://www.youtube.com/embed/pB-5XG-DbAA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDpB-5XG-DbAA Emeli Sande’s “Next to me” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-nwdjQmc_N8/maxresdefault.jpg "Emeli Sandé - Next To Me (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwdjQmc_N8) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/150 "2014-08-30T10:47:03Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > “And you can tell everybody -” > > A) This is your song. > B) I’m the man, I’m the man, I’m the man. I assumed that was a deliberate quoting. The first time I heard “B” on the radio a few months ago, I thought “what a clever Elton John homage.” But my wife thought it wasn’t trying to be that, which would make it pure plagiarism. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/151 "2014-08-30T10:49:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Why has no one mentioned Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” and Genesis’s “Misunderstanding”? If there was ever a lawsuit… Very similar 12/8 feel played and sung at the same tempo, but the melodies aren’t particularly similar. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/152 "2014-08-31T07:59:34Z")
This is one I’ve noticed all summer: Ed Sheeran’s [“Sing”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlYcUqEPN58) and The Rolling Stones’[“Miss You”.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uetJoJj0M88) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106.md?page=7)